I worry that Hugginface is on path to becoming another Docker

Huge contributions to the industry, everyone uses it (or something that came after it) but nobody pays or wants to pay for it.

The first place I look for a new model is Hugginface.

However using them for inference (seemingly their revenue play) basically always ends up in a very unfriendly build vs buy as they don’t eliminate the need for one or more ML engineers.

Paying x% over infra costs for managed models on my choice of cloud only works if I don’t also have to spend to hire ML engineering at the same rate regardless.

I want them to succeed.